Echobaby

One of the interesting things about South Africa is that people see dogs as home protectors.  In addition to the high walls and electric fen...

Its interesting how fast I deteriorate under the fast pace of modern motherhood.  The vacation in South Africa was like the crest of a gentl...

NEWS via PdHeart: Dear Members, It is with great joy and excitement that I am writing to let you know that this afternoon, the Secretar...

I can't write blog posts or even watch TV.  I am obsessed with the Boer War - a war between the British Empire and the Dutch/Afrikaner ...

Today Wren started at his new preschool.  He was very apprehensive and worried about the details.  When I dropped him off he cried and str...

Be chilled dude On the eve of our departure to Jbg and home, I have been digging into lunch at Beanbag Bohemia and into boxes of family h...

Today we returned to Durban from Hluhluwe, 3 hours up the North Coast into Zululand. Like our earlier trip to Leisure Bay (down the South C...

David, Josh, Dad and Ingrid went on a dawn guided walk. They got up at 5am and drove to a bush camp to walk for a few hours. They saw no...

Last night we arrived at Hilltop Camp in the Ufolozi Hluhluwe game reserve.  Its very dry and the horizon was yellow with smoke from a huge ...

Tomorrow morning we are off "on Safari" as the Americans like to say it.  Here, we say simply that "we are going to a game re...